Adding pictures and videos to your website or Blog. How to find copyright-free (or free to use) pictures and videos on the internet and add them to your site.

http://www.sxc.hu/

A friend on E-How told me about this one. It is awesome. A great place for royalty free pictures of almost anything.

If you are interested in finding photos, videos or music that you can use freely, you are actually looking for free public domain materials. Unfortunately, however, free public domain stuff is difficult to find and ever harder to verify that is free for your use.

A good place to start is WikiMedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ), which is a large repository of public-domain and Creative-Commons licensed materials. The website says that "Wikimedia Commons was launched in September 2004 to provide a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media. It is a multilingual project with contributors speaking dozens of languages, that serves as a central repository for all Wikimedia projects."

Check out my hub at http://hubpages.com/hub/Free-and-Public-Domain-Ima for more information.

People ask me about this quite often on how to add something to their website or blog. My answer to this is that depends on what you are using, and how you are using it. What I mean by this is that if you... keep reading →